They’re going to have to get the dealers in line for this to have any chance of success. Dealerships hate hybrids and EVs. I tried like hell to get myself a Maverick hybrid truck. It apparently could not be done without traveling cross-country.

I am aware of the sarcasm in the OP. I get it. My reaction to it was “no, yeah, but people genuinely are getting dumber very fast.” It’s noticeable. We have functionally illiterate college freshman now.

A thing I’ve noticed on the Fediverse is obvious virtue-signaling dog piling with a twist: logic is also a virtue people want to signal. But people are increasingly incapable of genuine reasoning. So they try to ape logic anyway. They go through the motions of what they think reasoning looks like. It’s like watching a 6 year old try to use big words to sound smart. And they get validated for it, because the conclusions they started with align with the social group. It’s painful to see.

If it makes you feel better, that $77 billion was just numbers in a ledger. Vapor bucks. It was just a representation of Zuckerburg’s power in society, which is now gone. It’s not like $77 billion in food or housing vanished. The financial economy is mostly not backed by real things.

I thought for sure that if nothing else, the CIA would have done it. He got a ton of them killed for no reason last time. Seems like it would have been simple self-preservation.

I’ve found that you can experience the world as a child at least one more time. If you’re older than 30 and haven’t tried weed yet, you’re in for a treat. One of the best experiences of my life was being stoned for the first time, wandering around my garden looking at leaves and bugs and stuff.

Take your meds, homie

Not sure if I’m coining a term here. I meant people whose primary existential concern right now is ChatGPT becoming Skynet and enslaving or hunting humanity to extinction. There are hundreds of them on r/collapse on reddit.

I can’t imagine I’m allowed to say…